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South Africa remains an important regional hub for education
While the number of foreign students hosted has declined in recent years, South Africa remains an important destination for international students, particularly those from other African nations....
View ArticleUK: Higher education holding; poised for growth in ELT
Foreign enrolment in British higher education has been essentially flat for the last couple of years. Meanwhile, student weeks in English Language Teaching (ELT) programmes fell by 13% in 2015, and,...
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Is fear of unqualified leads holding back your school website?
The following is a guest post from Crystal Marketing, a digital marketing agency with offices in Singapore and the Netherlands. An earlier version was originally published on LinkedIn. It has been...
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Malta ELT up slightly in 2016
An annual data release from Malta’s National Statistics Office (NSO) shows that student arrivals for English Language Teaching (ELT) programmes increased slightly in 2016. Malta welcomed 76,730 ELT...
View ArticleFurther growth for Irish ELT in 2016
Ireland is well on its way to meeting some ambitious growth goals for 2020. A new national strategy released in October 2016 set out targets for 33% growth in international enrolments in higher...
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Measuring up: Global market share and national targets in international...
Roughly five million students are studying outside their home countries today, more than double the 2.1 million who did so in 2000 and more than triple the number of mobile students in 1990. This...
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Australia: ELICOS enrolment grew in 2016
Australia is the latest major English Language Teaching (ELT) destination to post its enrolment data for 2016. Full-year data is now available and it indicates a total of 115,279 commencements for the...
View ArticleItaly announces 2017 PON funding for language studies
After more than a year of silence on the future of the PON scholarship scheme, the Italian government has just released details for 2017. The Programma Operativo Nazionale (PON) is a broadly based,...
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Spain: Survey shows four-year growth trend for language enrolment
The Spanish Federation of Associations of Schools of Spanish as a Foreign Language (FEDELE) has released the latest edition of its El Informe Sectorial survey, which the organisation has been...
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Japan’s enrolment growth picking up steam
The growth in inbound student numbers that Japan began to show in 2014 has continued through 2016. Every year, the Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) offers a snapshot of foreign enrolment in...
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Australia introduces additional reporting on agent performance
Australia’s Department of Education and Training (DET) has recently announced plans to produce new reports on the performance of international education agents referring students to Australian...
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Australia off to a fast start in 2017
The latest visa data from the Department of Immigration and Border Protection indicates that Australian recruiters are off to a very fast start for 2017. For the first three months of the year, total...
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UK ELT declines for third straight year
The latest data from English UK reveals a third consecutive year of declining English Language Teaching (ELT) enrolments for British providers. “The industry has already been undergoing seismic...
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German outbound for language study dipped in 2016
An annual survey from the German agency association FDSV (Fachverband Deutscher Sprachreise-Veranstalter) has found that the number of Germans going abroad for language study declined slightly in 2016...
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US ELT enrolment down sharply in 2016
New enrolment data reveals a steep decline in both student numbers and student weeks for Intensive English Programmes (IEPs) in the US. Released during the NAFSA 2017 conference in Los Angeles this...
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Brazilian outbound grew in 2016
The latest annual survey of education agents in Brazil finds that the number of outbound students from the country increased in 2016. The Brazilian Educational and Language Travel Association (Belta)...
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Measuring the cost of living in major study cities
A new analysis from Student.com aims to map the cost of living across a wide field of city destinations. All told, the sample included bookings in 92 cities, albeit primarily in the world’s top three...
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South African ELT recovery underway
Enrolment in South African English Language Teaching (ELT) programmes has begun to recover from a drastic decline in 2015. Recently released full-year data for 2016 shows a 19% increase in student...
View ArticleIndonesia’s growing middle class expected to drive outbound mobility
With more than 263 million people, Indonesia is the world’s fourth most-populous country. It is also the world’s largest Muslim-majority country with nearly nine in ten inhabitants identifying as...
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Australia tracking to double-digit enrolment increase for 2017
The earlier indicators we’ve had of lively growth in international enrolment in Australia are being reinforced by the latest data from the Department of Education and Training (DET). The most recent...
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